George's Christian Base Get's Yet Another Wake-up Call

I don't know if you will remember or not, but way back during the beginnings of the Abramoff scandal, it was revealed that this administration regarded their Christian base as nothing more than political pawns and a source of revenue. In fact, I posted about it here, back in November of 2005. Here is a short snippet from that post explaining how Michael Scanlon a former communications director for Rep. Tom DeLay turned lobbyist who has plead guilty to corruption charges would use them In plain terms, Scanlon confessed the source code of recent Republican electoral victories: target religious conservatives, distract everyone else, and then railroad through complex initiatives. "The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees," Scanlon wrote in the memo, which was read into the public record at a hearing of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. "Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them." Nice eh? Well now we have yet another example of this administrations' hypocrisy from a tell-all book called Tempting Faith by author David Kuo a self-described conservative Christian., who served as special assistant to the president from 2001 to 2003. A snippet from this report by MSNBC ...David Kuo, who served as special assistant to the president from 2001 to 2003. A self-described conservative Christian, Kuo'’s previous experience includes work for prominent conservatives including former Education Secretary and federal drug czar Bill Bennett and former Attorney General John Ashcroft.... He says some of the nation'’s most prominent evangelical leaders were known in the office of presidential political strategist Karl Rove as "“the nuts."” "“National Christian leaders received hugs and smiles in person and then were dismissed behind their backs and described as '‘ridiculous,'’ '‘out of control,'’ and just plain '‘goofy',"” Kuo writes. So there you have it my Christian conservative friends, according to Tom DeLay's former assistant Michael Scanlon you are all "wackos", and Karl Rove your dear leaders' right hand man calls you "goofy" and "“the nuts"”. Sleep well in your deep faith people, and oh be sure you all flock to the voter's booth on Nov. 7th. After all you have to be faithful to this bunch right? Just as they are so faithful to you. Read on.... You can also see the video of how our hero Keith Olbermann reported on it last night, at Crooks and Liars.